Stewart Geddes

Stewart Drummond "Nip" Geddes (6 March 1879 – 6 May 1952) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Stewart Geddes
Personal information
Full name Stewart Drummond Geddes[1]
Date of birth 6 March 1879
Place of birth Richmond, Victoria
Date of death 6 May 1952(1952-05-06) (aged 73)
Place of death Trafalgar, Victoria
Original team(s) Richmond Juniors
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1897–1902 Melbourne 081 0(8)
1904 Richmond (VFA) 011 0(3)
1905 St Kilda 010 0(2)
1908–1912, 1914–1915 West Torrens 070 (24)
Total 171 (37)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1905.
Career highlights
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

The youngest of the seven children of William Geddes (1827–1886),[2] and Catherine Stewart Geddes (1833–1906), née Lilburn,[3] Stewart Drummond Geddes was born in Richmond, Victoria on 6 March 1879. He died at Trafalgar, Victoria on 6 May 1952.[4]

Football
"'Nip' Geddes, a follower, ranks with the best the State has produced. He was a brilliant high mark and a fine drop-kick."[5]
"Possibly the finest exponent of [the stab kick] we have ever seen … Nip's reputation was that he could, running at his top, stab a bail on to a threepenny piece thirty yards away."[6]

Melbourne (VFL)

Geddes arrived from Richmond Juniors as a defender but was used mostly on the ball by Melbourne. He took part in the historic 1897 VFL finals series and played in the 1900 VFL Grand Final, where he kicked one of Melbourne's four goals to help them claim their maiden premiership. While awaiting to be granted clearance to St Kilda, Geddes missed the 1903 and 1904 season.[7]

Richmond (VFA)

He joined the Richmond Football Club in the VFA in the mid-season of 1904, and played eleven games for them that year.[8][9]

St Kilda (VFL)

Finally granted a clearance from Melbourne,[10] he arrived at St Kilda in 1905 but only played for one year.

South Broken Hill Football Club (BHFL)

In 1907 he was playing with the South Broken Hill Football Club in the Broken Hill Football League.[11]

West Torrens (SAFL)

He later played with West Torrens, captaining the South Australian Football League club in 1908 and 1909.[12][13]

Appointed coach in 1914,[14] the team came fourth in 1914, and fifth in 1915 (due to the First World War, the SAFL competition was suspended in 1916, 1917, and 1918).

"Torrens players wore black armbands during the Alberton game as a mark of respect to Nip Geddes, old-time Torrens ruck star, who died this week in Melbourne. Geddes was a stalwart in the days when Torrens played on Hindmarsh Oval."[15]

See also

Footnotes
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  1. "Register of V.C.A. 1st XI Pennant, District & Premier Cricketers: 1889–90 to 2013–14" (PDF). Cricket Victoria. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  2. Deaths, Geddes, The Age, (Monday, 26 July 1886), p.1.
  3. Deaths: Geddes, The Argus, (Thursday, 8 February 1906), p.1.
  4. "Family Notices". The Chronicle. Adelaide. 15 May 1952. p. 38. Retrieved 21 September 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. Sandshoes used, The Adelaide News, (Saturday, 25 July 1936), p.7.
  6. South Adelaide v. West Torrens, The (Adelaide) Daily Herald, (Friday, 6 August 1920), p.7.
  7. Migratory Footballers, The Argus, (Thursday, 28 April 1904), p.6; Football Notes, The Australasian, (Saturday, 7 May 1904), p.23.
  8. World of Sport, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Friday, 24 June 1904), p4; Richmond v. Port Melbourne, The Weekly Times, (Saturday, 9 July 1904), p.18.
  9. "Tigerland Archive – VFA Players".
  10. Football Season: Granting of Permits, The Argus, (Thursday, 4 May 1905), p.8.
  11. Football, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Wednesday, 10 July 1907), p.6.
  12. General, The (Adelaide) Evening Journal, (Thursday, 30 April 1908), p.3.
  13. "Nip" Geddes Dies in Victoria, The (Adelaide) Advertiser, (Thursday, 8 May 1952), p.8.
  14. Football: West Torrens Club, The (Adelaide) Journal, (Friday, 22 May 1914), p.1.
  15. The Adelaide Mail, (Saturday, 10 May 1952) p.6.

References
  • Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
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